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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can we drop the comedi serial2002 drivers from staging?
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 19:59:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180801175957.GA9239@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180616090645.GA3997@lst.de>

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As far as I can tell there has been no targeted work on the driver
> since merging it at all, and since 2014 even the comedi-wide
> cleanups stopped, laving just drive by tree wide changes since.
> 
> At the same time the driver badly abuses the tty layer and is one
> of only two major abusers of the poll code for in-kernel waits.

I've dropped it now, if people really want it, we can revert it and
convert to use serdev.

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-01 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-16  9:06 can we drop the comedi serial2002 drivers from staging? Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-16  9:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-18  9:35   ` Ian Abbott
2018-08-01 17:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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